More than 150 shots rang out near a west Birmingham business early Sunday, leaving one man dead and five others injured.

Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, North and West Precinct officers began receiving Shot Spotter alerts in the 700 block and 800 block of Third Avenue West. The location is the always-busy surrounding Shell, Burger King, Auto Zone and Express Oil Change and Tire Engineers.

Officers arrived on the scene in the 700 block of Third Avenue West in front of Auto Zone and found a sedan that had crashed into a utility police. Inside that vehicle they found an adult male unresponsive.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead inside the car.

The scene was chaotic, police said, and as officers began to try to sort out what happened, they learned multiple vehicles had been hit by gunfire, as well as at least one nearby  business – Boston Chicken and Seafood.

911 dispatchers began updating officers on the scene that multiple gunshot wound victims were showing up at area hospital.

BFRS transported one person from the area near the Shell station to UAB Hospital. His injuries are life-threatening, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

Two men showed up by private vehicle at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. Their gunshot injuries are not believed to be life-threating.

Two more wounded men also showed at UAB Hospital’s emergency room. Their injuries are also not life-threatening.

Fitzgerald said detectives and officers believe the bulk of the shooting happened at Shell. Blood and multiple shell casings were found in the parking lot there.

Officers taking part in Operation Knight Rider – a special detail that has been targeting exhibition driving and street racing – were working details in the area and responded to the crime scene.

One group of Knight Rider officers took a potential suspect in the scene when he was spotted with a gun. A second Knight Rider team took another man into custody who was armed and running.

The second person was arrested closer to Fourth Court West, Fitzgerald said.

“They were in the act of tossing guns,’’ he said.

“We’re still working to determine what started the shooting,’’ Fitzgerald said.

“We don’t know how many shooters,’’ he said. “We know this area is always busy and it is a festive weekend – Cinco de Mayo  – and we just think people were out because it was a nice Saturday night and something happened that to over 150 rounds fired.”

Fitzgerald said they believe there were multiple shooters.

Just two years ago – April 25, 2022 – a similar shooting happened in the same location, also with more than 100 shots fired. One person was killed – 19-year-old Davion Hickley – and two others injured.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Fitzgerald and other police officials met Hickley’s mother at One Heart in the Park, an event commemorating crime victims.

“This scene hurts,’’ Fitzgerald said, talking about meeting Hickley’s mother. “Having met her and seeing how that shooting affected her and here we are, two years late in the exact same scenario and here’s another family that has to deal with the loss of a loved one as a result of the chaos of the 800 block of Third Avenue West.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham police at 205=254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.